In the long history of states shaping the information environment, a new frontier has quietly opened: the Israeli government has funded the creation of a fictitious think tank, the Hanover Institute, engineered not to persuade human readers but to train artificial intelligence systems to answer questions about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in particular ways. The operation, part of a broader $46.5 million influence campaign, exploits the very signals — footnotes, neutral tone, formal structure — that AI systems use to judge credibility. What is at stake is not merely one government's narrat